Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.
Henry GeorgeIt is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.
Henry GeorgePoverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
Henry GeorgeLaissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.
Henry GeorgeSocial reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.
Henry George